Amazon engineer this morning to colleague: "Hey! Maybe we should include some cranes in our training data."
As someone who has worked in AV perception this is unfortunately way too accurate lol, so much training set whack-a-mole
Readit Newsblaufuchs commented on Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ abc15.com/news/region-wes... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
“He gave an answer” is comically dishonest framing, so it doesn’t matter what that answer is at all? Nice deflection at the end there, almost convinced me.
blaufuchs commented on Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate utkusen.substack.com/p/xt... · Posted by u/hn1986
X's stated goal is to comply with the laws of any given country that it operates in. As the article states, there is a court order to restrict that particular users account https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1920426409358455081.
This is a nothing burger.
At this point I think we can safely retire “nothing burger”, can’t remember the last time it meant something other than “an inconvenient story for my narrative that I’d rather gloss over”
blaufuchs commented on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/freetonik
It. doesn't. matter.
The only legitimate reason to make a rule is to produce some outcome. If your rule does not result in that outcome, of what use is the rule?
Will this rule result in people disclosing "AI" (whatever that means) contributions? Will it mitigate some kind of risk to the project? Will it lighten maintainer load?
No. It can't. People are going to use the tools anyway. You can't tell. You can't stop them. The only outcome you'll get out of a rule like this is making people incrementally less honest.
> Will it lighten maintainer load?
Yes that is the stated purpose, did you read the linked GitHub comment? The author lays out their points pretty well, you sound unreasonably upset about this. Are you submitting a lot of AI slop PRs or something?
P.S Talking. Like. This. Is. Really. Ineffective. It. Makes. Me. Just. Want. To. Disregard. Your. Point. Out. Of. Hand.
blaufuchs commented on Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
If you thought you had won thousands of dollars you would likely be tempted to pay a hundred to get that out.
Well there's the problem, who honestly thinks they won thousands of dollars from an ad?
blaufuchs commented on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer? civileats.com/2025/02/18/... · Posted by u/greenie_beans
I genuinely don't understand why the focus is on egg prices. Who out there is paying more than a total of $3-$5/month more in eggs? And no, even to the absolutely poorest among us, that's not a meaningful amount.
Yes, egg prices, as a percentage are going up a lot, but as an absolute value? I can get a dozen eggs from Walmart right now for $5.46. That isn't, by any measurement, a lot of money more than I would have paid a year ago.
>Who out there is paying more than a total of $3-$5/month more in eggs?
Seriously? I pay $12/dozen for organic pasture-raised (cheapest industrial eggs are ~$8) and eat 3-4 dozen a month.
blaufuchs commented on Francois Chollet is leaving Google developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/xnx
Keras was a miracle coming from writing stuff in Theano back in the day though.
Wow that gives me flashbacks to learning Theano/Lasagne, which was a breath of fresh air coming from Caffe. Crazy how far we've come since then.
blaufuchs commented on ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project bbc.com/news/articles/c7v... · Posted by u/beedeebeedee
wow discovering Hamming’s lecture was enough for me! so good
I know, I didn't realize he was alive in the 90s! Hearing him (sarcastically) say "now having 10 parameters isn't unusual, correct?" makes me wish he could've seen the 60B-parameter curve fitting we're doing nowadays.
A good way to conceptualize what’s going on is not the idea that balls become "spiky" in high dimensions – like the article says, balls are always perfectly symmetrical by definition. But it’s the box becoming spiky, "caltrop-shaped", its vertices reaching farther and farther out from the origin as the square root of dimension, while the centers of its sides remain at exactly +-1. And the 2^N surrounding balls are also getting farther from the origin, while their radius remains 1/2. Now it should be quite easy to imagine how the center ball gets more and more room until it grows out of the spiky box.
TFA does say this too, right after the Hamming lecture.
"So instead of considering n-balls to be spiky, it’s the space around them that outgrows them."